Fair enough. I was considering France and England, too. What are your thoughts on those?

I appreciate your input, but honestly, coming from Brazil, even with those cons I can’t help but wish those were my problems…

As a masters candidate I am actively looking for options in Europe in the finance field, and Germany would be my prefered country to live in. But it’s hard for them to compete with ETH Zurich and Ecole Polytechnique which both have better prestige, student reviews and are close by, not even mentioning Imperial and Oxford which are great too. I was looking into TU Munich and got scared by all the negativity from students in the Reddit sub

Yeah, “EU” solutions to security just seem so naive. Do we really expect a German national to put their country’s security on the line if need be? Long term, what would prevent French, German, Spanish, whatever exceptionalism from rising and infecting EU leadership?

Europe is not a country and historically the internal cooperation we see today is the extreme exception. Any of the countries could flip at any time for a multitude of reasons, and then what? France just dominates?

Is it, though? You aren’t contributing anything to the local economy or culture while simultaneously stimulating gentrification…